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Sign of Pathology

U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s-1960s
  • ISBN-13: 9780271065557
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Nathan Stormer
  • Price: AUD $152.00
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  • Local release date: 14/05/2015
  • Format: Hardback 272 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: History of medicine [MBX]
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Examines the medical discourse on abortion in the United States from the 1800s to the 1960s. Demonstrates that abortion was seen as a sign of social pathology indicating undoing of civilization.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Struggling Through Life

Part 1

1. When Abortion Became a Political-Economic Problem

2. Remembering, Forgetting, and the Secrets of Life

Part 2

3. “White Man’s Plague”: Anti-Malthusian Memory Work at the Fin de Siècle

4. “More Wisdom in Living”: Neo-Malthusian Memory Work at Midcentury

5. “The Lesser of Threatened Evils”: Therapeutic Amnesias

Conclusion: Seeking Immunity

Notes

Bibliography

Index


“If your primary scholarship is in abortion rhetorics or historic American medical rhetorics, then this text is an indispensable and invaluable contribution to your area. Similarly, for those interested in rhetorical genealogy and/or rhetorical historiography, broadly conceived, Signs of Pathology is an exemplar text in the genre.”

—S. Scott Graham, Rhetoric & Public Affairs

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